Customer Ratings & Reviews

I thought I was destined to sleeping on the couch until I got these. My partner snores and I had been unable to sleep in the same room, even when listening to music loudly with regular earphones. I gave these a shot based on the great reviews. It's been a month and I haven't slept on the couch since! They do a fantastic job of blocking out outside sounds (and without destroying my hearing / needing a high volume) and are pretty comfortable. I like the charging case too - very convenient to not have to recharge the whole thing by plugging it in every day, and that you can set an alarm with it so no need to worry about not hearing your phone's alarm. I saw that some reviewers dislike the sound options - I feel I'm not too picky with those, they're relaxing enough for me to fall asleep to and prevent me from waking up to snores which is exactly what I wanted from them. I can't speak to durability yet but I hope they will last a long time! I'd likely get another pair if they stop working. Life savers!

Painful to use. The materials and the way the charger works; feels cheap for such a high premium price.

These fell flat. They did nothing for me but a headache in the morning trying to find the lost one in my bed. Returned.

I had to return because the left ear unit was defective. It would not detect even though charged 100 percent.

Bought them a month or so ago and one of them already started making clicking sounds with or without audio

I had to return, just very uncomfortable. Not sure if I have small ears, but the smallest piece still didnt work.

It was too hard to sleep with them. It made all external conditions too silent to relax and sleep

Not much noise cancelling, could still here my husband snoring clearly through these.

Just stopped working best buy womt help wint stay charged.

Pro: compact fit in ear for side sleeper, good battery life Con: only lasted 2 years, app clunky, charging unit

These suck you can only use them with the app seriously you should at least be able to use with normal music

Didn’t like that you can only listen to the Bose playlist. I got bored quickly.

Worst product ever, not worth the $250 poor fitting and you have to only hear what bows says you can

Did not meet expectations. I would not recommend this product

Didn’t work. Had to return to local Best Buy store. There were no problems and service always great in ft Wayne

First off, I love Bose products. Yea they are pricy, and they may not be the best sounding, but they do what they claim and they last With the sleep headphones, that changed Comfort Top notch. You will not notice them while you sleep Sound Very clear sound and great noise canceling App This is where they fall down. The app is not intuitive and the UI is quirky. You also can only stream their sounds from the app and not add any of your own. These headphones are tethered to the Bose app and nothing else While this works well for the purpose, but limits other functions Like I said, I am not sure they are worth the money, since there are other options that are cheaper and offer more functionality

First off, let me say that I like to sleep. I know that is not a controversial statement, but I LOVE to sleep and I always have. My mom said that straight from the hospital I slept like it was my job. Over the years I moved up the rungs of the sleeping company until I was president and CEO of the company. I slept through an F5 tornado in Oklahoma back in the day! Unfortunately, old age, stress, COVID, politics, and a cat that likes to do 0400 zoomies, have ruined my sleeping career. My sleep has been so bad for the last year or so that I was on the verge of asking my doc for sleeping pills, which I really don't want to use, but I was getting to the point that it was seriously affecting my life. I've tried a ton of different things from earplugs, to meditation, to naps, and there was always something that kept it from working as well as I would like or need. I HATE wearing earplugs, not only because I have trouble keeping them, but also I'm a side sleeper and the pillow pushing the earplug into my ear is more of a problem than noise. Meditation has helped with the stress a bit, but that hasn't really carried over to helping my sleep. Naps during the day haven't gone so well because the neighborhood I'm in is bustling during the day and it's impossible to sleep for any length of time with the cars going by, the workers doing whatever work they have to do, and just people who aren't as tired as me getting on with their lives. The Bose Sleepbuds II were are hail-Mary shot at trying to finally get some decent quality of sleep again. Fortunately that hail-Mary has come through for me. It has only been a week since I got them but I'm already doing better than I have in months. So what has been so great about the Sleepbuds II? Here are the pros: 1. Incredibly comfortable: These things are tiny and the silicone earpieces that wrap around them are nicely pliable and do an excellent job giving you a decent amount of passive noise canceling without hurting at all. They are so small that they don't sit outside of your ears at all unlike many earplugs. I can sleep on my side with them in my ears better than I ever have before. The first couple of nights, I woke up with my ears hurting a bit but I think that was because I darn near passed out and I'm not sure I moved my head for most of the night. 2. Great Selection of Sounds: Between the three categories of sounds (Noise Masking, Naturescapes, and Tranquilities), there are 40 different sounds to choose from and you can have any combination of 10 of them loaded into your Sleepbuds. The Noise Masking sounds are there to help drown out the sounds of cars, people talking, yard work, snoring, or whatever might be keeping you awake. It, combined with the passive noise cancelling of the eartips does a very good job of covering up those external sounds. Is it absolutely quiet, no, but it is pretty darn good. I'm a pretty big fan of the water based sounds (rain, stream, surf). The Naturescapes build on the noise masking in that they are a more complex sound with additional depth to them. They add things like birds, or rain on leaves, and such to further help mask outside noise. Finally, the Tranquilities are musical sounds that are ethereal and such that I would never probably use for sleeping but perhaps others might like it. 3. Easy Portability: The Sleepbuds II case is slightly smaller than a hockey puck, so it is super easy to pack into a bag. The top lid slides back to reveal the Sleepbuds in their docking stations and you can also see the battery life and charging indicators. You just drop the buds in and the magnets in the case draw the buds to their perfect charging position and you are good to go. 4. Nice App: The Bose Sleep App is incredibly easy to use and makes it a breeze to connect to your Sleepbuds. It is simple to connect to your earbuds once you put them in your ears and to swipe between sounds that are loaded up or to select new sounds to add. 5. Alarm: Super easy to set an alarm in app that only you will hear and you don't have to worry about waking anyone else. There are a few quibbles I have with the Sleepbuds that I think Bose could easily address with an App update: 1. Make it easier to add/remove sounds from the earbuds: Right now, when you are looking on the app at the Sound Library, the ones that are on the Sleepbuds are down at the bottom of the screen and you have to scroll down to see them. And that is the same for each of the three sound categories. I think these should be at the top. You can also see all of them by just swiping left and right on My Sounds tab but if you are trying to manage the sounds, you have to do that from the Library. Also, you can't just pick sounds to delete from your Sleepbuds. What will happen is that once you try to put on more than 10 sounds, it will prompt you to remove sounds to make room. It will then present you with a list of the sounds on your Sleepbuds and you can select which ones you would like to delete. This should just be a tab as it is. You should also be able to switch the order of sounds as they appear when you swipe left/right in the My Sounds tab. 2. Make it easier to select sounds to download with your Sleepbuds in your ears: When previewing the sounds in the Sound Library prior to downloading them to the Sleepbuds, you will have to listen to it through your phone speaker and not the Sleepbuds if they are already in your ears. It's kinda weird that the Sleep App can't stream the samples of the sounds to your Sleepbuds. By the way, you will only be listening to sounds that you load onto your Sleepbuds from the Sound Library. You will not be streaming the sounds from the app nor can you stream any music or anything else from your phone. So, to wrap things up, I have been very happy with the Bose Sleepbuds II. I am already seeing better sleep in just the week since I have had them. I also think that these have a lot more use to them than just helping you get sleep at night. These things are not cheap and you might balk at the price just for something to help you go to sleep at night, no matter how well it does that. I have already put them to use in other ways as well. The Sleepbuds have also improved my naps and meditation! Naps: I'm still trying to catch up with my sleep and I've always been a fan of naps anyway. The sound masking tech in the Sleepbuds is great at night but it's just as good, if not better during the day when there is an even greater amount of sound preventing you from getting a good nap. Also, I tend to take my naps in my easy chair (I have become my father), and without sleeping on my side, I have absolutely no discomfort in my ears at all! Meditation: The Tranquilities that you can load onto the Sleepbuds are perfect for meditation. Like I said above, they are a little too musical for my taste when trying to sleep but they are absolutely perfect for taking the time to de-stress and focus through meditation. I would really love it if Bose would even add some guided meditation options to the Sleepbuds Sound Library. That may be harder to do since that would be a much larger sound file, but perhaps they can try it for a future version. All-in-all, I couldn't be much happier than I am with the Bose Sleepbuds II. They do just what Bose promises and they do it extremely well. Thank you Bose for helping me get some much needed rest again!

wife said that she can still hear my CPAP machine blowing

Didn’t work as described. Didn’t cancel out anything

The battery won’t charge its like Stuck on 25% So far not a good experience